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German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer is still remembered for his deep thoughts on human life, individuality and freedom. One of his most w
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
That’s as maybe but it’s still a stone bummer sometimes.
The Folks behind the Toons
Max Fleischer
Majer Fleischer was born July 19, 1883, to a Jewish family in Kraków, Poland (then in the Austrian Partition of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). He was the second of six children of a tailor. The family emigrated to the United States in 1887, where upon Majer’s name was changed to ‘Max.’ The family settled in New York City and Fleischer received commercial art training at Cooper Union followed by the Art Students League of New York. He also attended the Mechanics and Tradesman's School in midtown Manhattan.
Fleischer began his career at The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Starting off as an errand boy, he advanced to photographer, photoengraver, and eventually staff cartoonist. It was during this period he met newspaper cartoonist and early animator, John Randolph Bray, who would later give him his start in the animation field.
In December of 1905, Fleischer married his childhood sweetheart, Ethel Goldstein and not long thereafter was hired as a technical illustrator for the Electro-Light Engraving Company in Boston. It was around this time that Fleischer and his brothers began their initial designs for rotoscoping.
This rotoscoping process entails animation through a combined projector and easel for tracing images from a live-action film. This provided a more realistic and fluid animation style. Fleischer and his brothers were finally awarded a patent for the rotoscope in 1917 and it would go on to become a tool that revolutionized the medium of animation and film.
With the outbreak of World War I, Fleischer was sent to Fort Sill, Oklahoma to produce Army training films on subjects that included Contour Map Reading, Operating the Stokes Mortar, Firing the Lewis Machine Gun, and Submarine Mine Laying. Following the war, Fleischer continued to hone his craft. He helped found Red Seal Pictures and created a highly popular series of animated films that were known as sing-along shorts. The films had the song verses on the bottom of the screen with a bouncing red ball that instructed young audiences when to sing the lyrics.
Fleischer Studios, Inc. was established in 1929. Early productions from the studio included shorts featuring Betty Boop. Boop was born out of a cameo caricature in the early Talkartoon called Dizzy Dishes.
Fashioned after popular singer Helen Kane, she originated as a hybrid poodle/canine figure and was such a sensation that Fleischer to develop her into a continuing character (altering her design into a more human character). Helen Kane ended up suing Fleischer Studios over the likeness between her and Betty Boop. The case was ultimately dismissed. Others still believe Boop was inspired by performer Esther 'Lee'Baby Esther' Jones.
Alongside the Betty Boop films, Fleischer additionally licensed the rights to make cartoon based on Elzie Segar’s character, Popeye the Sailor. The Popeye films were a huge hit and Popeye soon began to rival Disney’s Micky Mouse as America’s most beloved cartoon character.
Fleischer Studios continued to produce Popeye and Betty Boop films up through the 1940s. In 1941, Fleischer produced and co-directed a ten minute film entitled Superman: The Mad Scientist. This was the first cartoon adventure featuring Siegel and Shuster’s Man of Steel and was a sensation.
It was followed by several more Superman films, including Superman: The Mechanical Monsters, Superman: The Magnetic Telescope, Superman: The Arctic Giant and others. Fleischer’s fluid and dynamic style was particularly well suited for depicting Superman’s exciting and fast-paced heroics. The films are remembered as among the best superhero cartoons every produced. Bruce Timm credits Fleischer's Superman films as a major inspiration for Batman: The Animated Series.
Fleischer produced and directed many other cartoon films, including Sneek, Snoop and Snitch, King for A Day, The Dandy Lion, The Raven and an animated iteration of Johnny Gruelle’s characters Raggedy Ann and Andy.
Fleischer produced training films for the Army and Navy during the Second World War. He was additionally involved with top-secret research and development for the war effort including an aircraft bomber sighting system. Following the war, he supervised the production of the animated adaptation of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Fleischer maintained a longstanding rivalry with Walt Disney Pictures. In an ironic twist, Fleischer’s eldest son, Richard was hired to direct the Disney feature film, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Ricard Fleischer would go on to become a highly successful movie director, helming movies such as Fantastic Voyage, Doctor Dolittle, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Soylent Green and Conan the Destroyer. Richard’s getting his first big break at Disney acted to cool tensions between the elder Fleischer and Disney.
Stepping away from producing and directing, Fleischer instead focused on technical development. His efforts resulted in a reflex camera viewfinder and research into line transfer methods to replace the time-consuming and tedious process of cel inking.
Fleischer retired in 1965 and he and his wife moved to Los Angeles. He passed away on September 11, 1972, two months after his 89th birthday.
Midnight Pals: The Three Rs
Angela Carter: see, the way it works is you take an existing myth or legend King: uh huh Carter: and then you add the 3 Rs Carter: you REimagine Carter: REcontextualize Carter: and REinvent King: and this works for any myth or legend? Carter: any myth or legend!
Carter: for example, think of little red riding hood King: right, right Carter: and imagine what if the wolf represented patriarchy? King: ok Carter: and the red cloak represented menses? King: um ok Carter: and also red fucked the wolf? Barker: YES
Carter: the important thing, steve, is that this works for any legend King: wow! this opens up so many possibilities! Mary Shelley: this sounds like more john barth bullshit Carter: ah yes john barth has been known to do this Shelley: i don't truck with john barth bullshit
Carter: mary, why are you so hostile to john barth? Mary Shelley: cuz he's a wanky shit Shelley: "oh oh oh look me i'm fucking john barth" Shelley: "ooo wot if we weren't actually people at all, what if we were actually just characters in an internet microfiction series oo" Shelley: real wanky shit
John Barth: ah yes what IF we were all just characters in an internet microfiction series Shelley: jesus h christ Shelley: you see what i mean? Barth: it would raise a lot of questions about causality and free will Shelley: oh fuck off Barth: in fact Barth: one second Barth: [rips massive bong hit]
Dean Koontz: oh! oh! oh! Koontz: i want to do the 3 Rs too! Koontz: i want to recontextualize, reimagine and reinvent something! Carter: what do you want to recontextualize, reimagine and reinvent, dean? Koontz: FRANKENSTEIN! Shelley: you see what you did? Shelley: you fuckin see what you did?
John Wiswell: i'm going to reimagine, recontextualize, and reinvent some greek myths! Wiswell: like, what if they were nice? Wiswell: i just think that would be nice Wiswell: like if the greek gods could just get over all their fussin' and a feudin'
Wiswell: ok so imagine hercules, the hero of ancient glory Wiswell: one day hera makes a real booboo and kills hercules' kids Wiswell: just a real whoopsiedoodle
Wiswell: so there's this whoopsiedoodle and now hercules' kids are dead Barker: i need more context on this whoopsiedoodle Barker: like, what actually happened Wiswell: Barker: like, specifically Wiswell: i Wiswell: i don't want to talk about it with dean here Koontz: what? why? what?
Wiswell: just imagine Wiswell: what if instead of killing monsters Wiswell: hercules was nice to them? Wiswell: like he could hug the nemean lion Wiswell: and tell the stymphalian birds they're valid Wiswell: and pet the hydra Koontz: on every head? Wiswell: on every head, yes, of course
Wiswell: and he could make sure that cerberus stays hydrated Koontz: what's cerberus Wiswell: it's a dog Koontz: whoa!!! Wiswell: well technically its like three dogs Koontz: WHOA!!!! Koontz: THAT'S EVEN BETTER!!!!
Jasmine Mas: i've got a way better hercules story Wiswell: gosh let's hear this one! Mas: hey fam it's me your gal hercules Mas: i was just a normal high school senior at Grecian Urn High Mas: trying to finish my normal greek classes Mas: getting an A in dionysusing and a B in thebesing
Mas: the world of ancient greece is run by these all powerful titans called the spartans Mas: who love pythagoras' theorum and ionic columns Barker: it sounds like you're saying random greek stuff Mas: nuh uh Mas: um er Mas: odyssey democracy euclidian geometry babaghanoush
Mas: but it turns out that i am actually a spartan Mas: cuz i took a blood test and it turns out i uhhh have gyros in my blood Mas: and zeno's paradox in my heart Mas: and uh Mas: uhhh Mas: uhhhhhhhhh Barker: did you run out of greek things Mas: i ran out of greek things :(
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I want a Batman-Question limited series that's basically the Question irritating the shit out of Batman by being way more Batman than even Batman can handle.
And then they team up to beat the piss out of, ooohhh, let's say Copperhead, because why not.
i don’t think i’ve ever laughed so hard like i was actually crying. there was absolutely zero mention of a wrestler the whole movie until this moment. this is a movie about vampire women btw
The killer thing is that, among the Santo movies, this is one of the more grounded. They are mad.
Midnight Pal: Delicious Boot Leather
Theresa C. Gaynord: i just want to say,i support trump 100% doing anything Gaynord: i don't care how many children he has to murder, how many grandmothers he has to terrorize Gaynord: it's all worth it, to finally get the rogue state of COMMIEfornia under control Gaynord: do you know they're shitting in the streets in san Francisco?
Gaynord: what's the problem? Gaynord: you don't like seeing your neighbors get deported to foreign gulags? Gaynord: well don't worry there's plenty of room Gaynord: for the rest of you Poe: King: Koontz: Lovecraft: Barker:
Barker: so uh Barker: who are you again? Poe: clive Gaynord: i'm actually really well known Gaynord: i'm kind of a big deal Gaynord: i was in who's who Barker: ahahaha Poe: cliveffff ok yeah that's pretty funny
Gaynord:[licking boot] delicious mmmfff Gaynord:[tonguing sole lasciviously] more more Gaynord:[eyes rolling back in head]
Gaynord: i'm not a horror writer to be popular Barker: yeah that's obvious from your reviews Barker: ohhhhh ha ha! Poe: now clive that's not fair Poe: you know you can't trust reviews Barker: why are you arguing with me, edgar? i'm right
Eli Roth: yeah! you know who else i hate? Roth: greta Thunberg Roth: i hate how she keeps saying bad things are bad Roth: it makes my tummy hurt Dan Simmons: yeah! Simmons: yeah yeah yeah!!
Roth: i think greta Thunberg should be eaten by cannibals Roth: a really racist depiction of cannibals Roth: that's the kind i like best Simmons: OMG me too!!!! Simmons: we should talk more
Joyce Carol Oates: interesting, i have a rebuttal Oates: look at this [shows foot, Gaynord instantly vaporizes] Oates: this isn't even one tenth of my power
Poe: jesus joyce! put it away! put it away! Poe: there's children here! Koontz: i'm scared! Poe: it's okay dean it's not real it's just Poe: joyce please for the love of god put it away King: it burns! oh god it burns! Mary Shelley: [staring directly at foot] now that's a power move
Poe: mary stop looking at it Shelley: no i'm fine Poe: mary, you don't need to prove anything Shelley: i'm fine Poe: mary Poe: mary you're gonna hurt your eyes Shelley: [eyes starting to tear, vein throbbing in forehead] no i'm fine
Midnight Pals: Get Your Ass to Mars
[space coven] Robert Heinlein: people, i'm afraid that the situation on earth is hopeless Heinlein: elon musk has been ejected from the government and with him dies the dream of a utopian libertarian outpost on Mars free from the tyranny of age of consent laws Heinlein: it's up to us now gentlemen Heinlein: we are the ones who must get humanity to mars Heinlein: i need answers people
Heinlein: how do we get our intrepid red-blooded space marines to mars before the forces of international communism? HG Wells: wait what was that about age of consent laws Heinlein: dammit herbert there's no time to argue
Heinlein: i'll tell you how we're gonna get to mars Heinlein: we need a ragtag group of all-american teenagers building a working rocket from junk in their backyard HG Wells: like Joe Dante's 1985 opus The Explorers? Heinlein: Yes! Heinlein: exactly like that!
HG Wells: i'm skeptical that a bunch of kids could build a working spaceship Heinlein: oh yeah? you don't think american youth has the gumption, is that right, herbert? Heinlein: or should i call you Heinlein: COMRADE??? Heinlein: you don't believe we can conquer mars with the raw virility and can-do spirit of america's youth? Heinlein: ray, you know a lot about mars Heinlein: what do YOU think Ray Bradbury: [thumbing suspenders] now i'm just a simple country writer Bradbury: there's nothing so beautiful as the limitless vista of a child's imagination
Bradbury: back on the farm, warm summer night spent gazing at the stars, twinkling in the ether, imagining a world of possibilities, barefoot children playing hopscotch and jacks and cowboys & injuns on a distant world, man and martian, in perfect harmony, look to the effortless love of the children to see the truth Bradbury: pepperridge farm remembers
Heinlein: ray, that's not what mars is like at all! Heinlein: we're going to arrive as conquerors Heinlein: and turn the RED planet into a bastian of free-market capitalism Heinlein: as for any martians, well Heinlein: we'll just have to destroy the planet to save it
HG Wells: i think maybe we shouldn't rely on random teenagers to build a rocket Heinlein: oh yeah? you got a better idea, pinko? Wells: well Wells: what if we Wells: uhhhh Wells: what if we Wells: what if we invented a metal that was lighter than air
Heinlein: a metal lighter than air? Wells: yeah then you could just float to mars Poe: you're all just reinventing the wheel Poe: just take a balloon to mars Poe: i mean, duh Poe: you can go ANYWHERE in a balloon Wells: oh he has a point
Midnight Pals: Orgasm Denial
JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: i am here to tell you about my new womensss conferenccce Rowling: where we will finally end the tyranny of orgasssmsss Barker: what Barker: what the fuck Barker: this time, you've gone too far rowling!!
Rowling: sssee, having orgasssmss releasess thetanss in the blood Rowling: which upss your orgone level Rowling: leading to increassed midichlorianss Rowling: it's all very ssscientific
Rowling: the important thing to understand is that orgassmss increassse violence and aggressssion Rowling: and therefore it's imperative for the sssafety of women Rowling: which i care about a lot Rowling: to ban orgasmsss entirely
Rowling: believe me, you're all going to feel much more calm and centered when you're doing mandatory life-long orgasssm denial Poe: i don't think that necessarily follows joanne Rowling: WHOA!!! you're being REALLY aggressssive edgar! Rowling: probably had a few too many orgasssmss today i'll wager Rowling: in fact you've all obviousssly had way too many orgassmss Rowling: hey else do you explain mary'sss aggressssion overtly masssculine aggressssion? Mary Shelley: that's true, i've had a lot of orgasms
Shelley: i love orgasms, they fuckin rule Shelley: usually on my mother's grave Shelley: with my he/him lesbian boyfriend Poe: who, byron? Shelley: no no the other one Poe: percy? Shelley: no no the other other one Poe: Poe: jane williams? Shelley: yeah, that's the bird
Rowling: with the power of my wealth, i will make orgassmss a thing of the passt! Barker: this is unacceptable! Poe: clive calm down Barker: i will not! Barker: i will not stand by and watch the sanctity of the orgasm be besmirched like this! King: clive really likes orgasms Barker: You're damn straight I like orgasms!!!!
Rowling: i hate orgassmss! Rowling: and alsso Rowling: asss previoussly esstablished Rowling: assexual people Poe: wait, i don't get it Rowling: nobody doess! Rowling: i'm the wind, baby!
Rowling: we're going to make it ssso that nobody orgassmss! Barker: no! Rowling: mandatory full-body orgassm denial Barker: no! Rowling: tying people up with ropes and chains so they can't touch their junk Barker: Rowling: chastity belts Barker: [sweats]
Barker: wait Barker: ok um Barker: this is going places Barker: Barker: was this a fetish thing the whole time? Rowling: what? no! Barker: i think it is Mary Shelley: oh my god it is
I'm sorry, I can buy a lot but I can't buy Clive & co. being shocked he's into whips & chains. I mean, come on, I've seen the damn movie.
Midnight Pals: Orgasm Denial
JK Rowling: hello children Rowling: i am here to tell you about my new womensss conferenccce Rowling: where we will finally end the tyranny of orgasssmsss Barker: what Barker: what the fuck Barker: this time, you've gone too far rowling!!
Rowling: sssee, having orgasssmss releasess thetanss in the blood Rowling: which upss your orgone level Rowling: leading to increassed midichlorianss Rowling: it's all very ssscientific
Rowling: the important thing to understand is that orgassmss increassse violence and aggressssion Rowling: and therefore it's imperative for the sssafety of women Rowling: which i care about a lot Rowling: to ban orgasmsss entirely
Rowling: believe me, you're all going to feel much more calm and centered when you're doing mandatory life-long orgasssm denial Poe: i don't think that necessarily follows joanne Rowling: WHOA!!! you're being REALLY aggressssive edgar! Rowling: probably had a few too many orgasssmss today i'll wager Rowling: in fact you've all obviousssly had way too many orgassmss Rowling: hey else do you explain mary'sss aggressssion overtly masssculine aggressssion? Mary Shelley: that's true, i've had a lot of orgasms
Shelley: i love orgasms, they fuckin rule Shelley: usually on my mother's grave Shelley: with my he/him lesbian boyfriend Poe: who, byron? Shelley: no no the other one Poe: percy? Shelley: no no the other other one Poe: Poe: jane williams? Shelley: yeah, that's the bird
Rowling: with the power of my wealth, i will make orgassmss a thing of the passt! Barker: this is unacceptable! Poe: clive calm down Barker: i will not! Barker: i will not stand by and watch the sanctity of the orgasm be besmirched like this! King: clive really likes orgasms Barker: You're damn straight I like orgasms!!!!
Rowling: i hate orgassmss! Rowling: and alsso Rowling: asss previoussly esstablished Rowling: assexual people Poe: wait, i don't get it Rowling: nobody doess! Rowling: i'm the wind, baby!
Rowling: we're going to make it ssso that nobody orgassmss! Barker: no! Rowling: mandatory full-body orgassm denial Barker: no! Rowling: tying people up with ropes and chains so they can't touch their junk Barker: Rowling: chastity belts Barker: [sweats]
Barker: wait Barker: ok um Barker: this is going places Barker: Barker: was this a fetish thing the whole time? Rowling: what? no! Barker: i think it is Mary Shelley: oh my god it is
Midnight Pals: Anytown Problems
William W Johnstone: tonight, my nephew is going to help me tell a story JA Johnstone: you bet, unca will! Stephen King: aw isn't that cute? King: i remember the first time i had joe help me tell a story King: anyone want to see a picture of my boy joe? King: spitting image of his old man, he is!
William W Johnstone: go right ahead, JA, tell the story like we discussed Johnstone: i'll be right here if you need me Johnstone: writing 12 simultaneous new potboilers Johnstone: and some of them are about cowboys!
JA Johnstone: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the small town beset by unspeakable evil King: like a clown? JA Johnstone: what King: a clown JA Johnstone: King: oh sorry i see the confusion King: i don't mean a regular clown King: i mean like an evil one
JA Johnstone: no it's beset by a real evil that exists in real life, a danger destroying the good decent small towns all across this great nation of ours JA Johnstone: of course, i speak of JA Johnstone: liberals JA Johnstone: sorry i mean LIEberals William W Johnstone: that's my boy!!
JA Johnstone: Anytown USA was just like any good town in REAL america JA Johnstone: with white picket fences, a greasy spoon that served ice cold beer to hard-working red blooded retired police and retired army rangers, and a church JA Johnstone: UNTIL the invasion of the blue state bloodsuckers
JA Johnstone: they came from ALL the bad states JA Johnstone: COMMIEfornia JA Johnstone: TAXsachusetts JA Johnstone: GENDER NEUTRAL BATHROOM York
King: "gender neutral bathroom york?" JA Johnstone: yeah sorry that one doesn't scan too well JA Johnstone: i was trying to think of a pun that indicated new york was full of weirdo foreign degenerates whose loyalty to america is questionable and i just couldn't think of a one
JA Johnstone: i mean, i just can't think of a pun to indicate new york is full of a certain kind of person i find innately disreputable HP Lovecraft: i can think of one Poe: howard stop JA Johnstone: i'm just stumped Lovecraft: i can help!
JA Johnstone: anytown USA used to have a beautiful public golf course where ordinary folks could play golf! King: such a thing exists? JA Johnstone: well, not anymore! JA Johnstone: it was bought and privatized by masked antifa thugs JA Johnstone: you know, as they do
Midnight Pals: Worldcon Drama
Hugo Gernsback: hey everyone its me, hugo gernsback Gernsback: editor of Amazing Stories and namesake of the hugo awards Gernsback: perhaps you've heard of them? Clive Barker: oh buddy Barker: buddy Barker: we've heard all about them ha ha
Gernsback: ah yes my precious hugo awards! Gernsback: the most prestigious award in science fiction and fantasy! Gernsback: a place for serious business Gernsback: certainly no room for shenanigans here Gernsback: no room for tomfoolery Gernsback: no room for clownish buffoonery
Gernsback: ugh, it's so hard to read all these panel proposals for worldcon Gernsback: where we do the hugo awards Gernsback: there's got to be a better way L Ron Hubbard: there is, my friend, there is! Hubbard: just sit right back and let your old pal Honest Ron tell you all about the exciting world of Hubbard: AI
Hubbard: see, all you do is Hubbard: you put the choicest cuts of science fiction and fantasy right here into this hopper Hubbard: you let the AI do its work Hubbard: and presto! [AI vomits gray slurry] Gernsback: Hubbard: trust me, your readers won't know the difference
Gernsback: why, this AI is great! Gernsback: if we had it back in my day, we never would have had to pay any of the writers we published in Amazing Stories! Lovecraft: you still haven't paid me! Gernsback: quiet, you
Gernsback: using advanced AI, we'll construct the perfect list of panelists for worldcon 2025! AI: you know you can use glue for pizza sauce Gernsback: eh, good enough for government work! Barker: yeah, literally
Gernsback: hey AI, using the list of names provided, please evaluate each person for scandals. Gernsback: Scandals include but are not limited to homophobia, transphobia, racism, harassment, sexual misconduct, sexism or fraud AI: ok Gernsback: this will work great because the AI is notably not build reflecting dominant attitudes of homophobia, transphobia, racism, harassment, sexual misconduct, sexism or fraud
Gernsback: great news, everyone! we used AI to Barker: BOOOOOO! Gernsback: to Barker: BOOOOOOO! Barker: come on guys, say it with me Koontz: Boo! Barker: that's the spirit Gernsback: jeez who would have though these writers didn't like the AI
Bitter Karella: you know this all could have been avoided Karella: if only they had nominated bitter karella for another fan hugo Gernsback: how would that have affected anything Karella: quiet, you
Karella: in fact, the fact that bitter karella was NOT nominated is surely the biggest miscarriage of justice of all Karella: i put the blame squarely where it belongs Karella: on YOU, the reader Karella: how could you let me down like this Karella: LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M TALKING
Barker: why? are you trying to secure a fourth straight loss? Karella: i Karella: Karella: shut up i don't like when you make fun of me Barker: ha ha
Karella: it's ok i didn't want a hugo anyway Karella: i hear that award sucks Barker: ha ha Poe: clive be nice Poe: he's very sensitive Barker: clearly Karella: i just wanted to beat taral Wayne's record :(
Midnight Pals: Magic
HP Lovecraft: everyone, this is harry Houdini the famous magician Harry Houdini: hey Stephen King: you know harry Houdini? Lovecraft: oh yeah we've been looking for a project to work on together for a while King: Lovecraft: we already established he's not really italian
King: so you must really believe in magic, huh? Houdini: nope! King: nope? Houdini: it's all flim-flammery! King: flim flimmery?! Houdini: and tomfoolery! King: well i knew it was flim flammery King: but to think it's tomfoolery too--!
Alan Moore [appears in a clap of thunder]: what fool dares to doubt the existence of magic? King: the arch magus! Lovecraft: the arch magus! Poe: the arch magus! Barker: the arch magus! Koontz: the arch magus!
Houdini: i am that fool Houdini: fie on your so-called magic! Houdini: why, it's nothing but a lot of humbug and ballyhoo! Houdini: i believe, my good sir, in facts and logic Houdini: by my calculations, magic is a flapdoodle of a fraud!
Moore: MAGIC NOT REAL?! Moore: A FLADOODLE! Moore: A FRAUUUUUD!?!?!?!??!!? King: uh, harry King: you might want to speak a little more uh King: respectfully King: to the arch magus Houdini: balderdash! hogtits! Moore: HARRY HOUDINI Moore: DO NOT TAKE ME FOR SOME CONJURER OF CHEAP TRICKS
Moore: [sky darkens, thunder sounds] now observe the awesome powers of the magus… unleashed! Moore: ok check it so please note that these 3 rings are NOT connected
Houdini: bring your best magicians! i'll defeat them all with the power of facts and logic! Aleister Crowley: i got this bro Crowley: I'M THE GREAT BEAST!!! Crowley: DO WHAT THOU WIIILT!!
Crowley: ok first you need a giant hat shaped like a pyramid Houdini: really? this is the best you got Crowley: wait wait i'm not done Crowley: then you need to draw a big ol' eye on it Houdini: NEXT
Grant Morrison: see, magic is about collecting all 8 chaos emeralds- Houdini: NEXT Charles Williams: it's about following the dictates of god's holy Anglican church- Houdini: NEXT Eve Harms: wait wait wait check this out Harms: just wait til you see what i can do to these base metals Houdini: NEXT
Houdini: i look around and all i see Houdini: are charlatans and frauds Houdini: OH YEAH Houdini: is there no one here with the strength to defeat me in the arena of knowledge? Arthur Conan Doyle: NOT SO FAST!
Charles Dickens: prepare for trouble! Doyle: make it double! Dickens: we are Doyle & Dickens: [standing arms folded, back to back] GHOST CLUB Doyle: blasting off at the speed of light! Dickens: surrender now or prepare to fight! Robert Aikman: Meowth! That's right!
Dickens: we're a team of paranormal experts dedicated to investigating the uninvestigatible Dickens: determining the indeterminable Dickens: and canning the uncanny Doyle: and also fairies Dickens: no no no Doyle: yes we look for fairies too Dickens: no Arthur we talked about this, we're not doing fairies
Doyle: ok harry i know you think magic is all "fake" and "lies" Doyle: but if that's the case explain The Lost World (1925) Houdini: what the Houdini: are those REAL dinosaurs?!?! Doyle: mmmmaybe
Midnight Pals: Elon Steps Back
King: Submitted for the King: King: sorry i was expecting to be interrupted Poe: by elon? King: yeah by elon King: that's weird, he hasn't tried to be my friend for over 2 hours now King: i hope... King: no sorry hope's not the right word King: i wonder if he's ok
[earlier] Elon Musk: mama mia i buy da wisconsin supreme court race Musk: alla da people dey laugh, dey clappa da hands Musk: eyyy you musta vota republican iffa you my friend! [Wisconsin race goes democrat] Musk: thissa is a crime
[in the white house] Donald Trump: we're gonna make the moon the 51st state, more & more people are saying it- Elon Musk [rising from bushes] eyyyyy donaldo trump Trump: Musk: eyyyy donaldo trump, you anna me, we goodaa friends, eh? Musk: elon anna donaldo, we besta buds, ey? Musk: thatsa right ey?
Trump: did you win wisconsin? Musk: eyyyy so de wisconsin race, it no go so good, ey? Musk: but i trieda real hard Musk: i try a reala reala hard Musk: i do alla da cheats Musk: just lika in diablo Trump: i prefer cheaters who win Musk: mama mia!
Musk: eyyy donaldo you gonna help you old buddy elon ey? Trump: my old buddy who? who is this? Trump: we've decided that elon's gonna step back in coming weeks Musk: eyyy mama mia! Trump: bah bye now Musk: but Trump: bah bye Trump: keep doing the doge thing, that's great Trump: just don't talk to me
[at midnight society] Musk: anyway we all agree Musk: it woulda be better if i step back a little Musk: that way, i have more time to spend with the people thata matter Musk: like my besta bud stephano king King: don't you have kids? Musk: eh?
Musk: me anna my besta bud donaldo trump Musk: we agree it best i steppa back from da politics Musk: we also agree it besta if da house of saud taka my ears
Musk: i canta buy da wisconsin Musk: so i concentrate onna buying other things Musk: lika dis campfire! [stephen kozeniewski delivers instant knock out punch to elon's forehead]
Poe: wow i Poe: i always knew someone was going to do it Poe: i just assumed it was going to be mary King: yeah i kind of thought we were building up to that too
Mary Shelley: sup fuckers? Shelley: what the- Shelley: what just happened here? King: i think stephen kozeniewski just murdered elon Poe: he's not actually dead Kozeniewski: i could hit him again Poe: no i don't think- Shelley: yeah do that
Surprisingly, only 1 of them isn't housebroken........ It's the one Deadpool takes care of
LIL BUDDIES
The only one you have to worry about humping your leg is Wolverine & that's only if you're a redhead.
Midnight Pals: Da Picts
Grant Allen: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of Pallinghurst Barrow Allen: it's about a scientist who's going to a scientist convention Allen: to talk to scientists about science Allen: as you do
Allen: of course, this scientist Allen: he's very rational, very logical Allen: he's certainly NOT given to wild flights of fancy Allen: not the sort to believe in non-scientific things King: oooo this going to be good!
Allen: but it turns out that right next to his lodgings Allen: there's this barrow Allen: it's probably nothing to worry about Allen: it's probably fine
Allen: but THEN Allen: he goes out to the barrow and OH SHIT Allen: he sees the ghosts of the picts! Allen: and he's all "oh no" Allen: "I sure PICT a bad time to go to the barrow!"
Allen: he sees these scary pict cavemen Allen: with their sloping ape-like brows and hairy monkey faces King: hey grant i don't think the picts were actually cavemen Lovecraft: steve, don't interrupt the man!
King: i'm pretty sure the picts weren't cavemen tho Allen: no no they were definitely cavemen Allen: see, steve, there's this brand new theory Allen: it's called evolution Allen: you might have heard of it Allen: see, the way it works is Allen: organisms change over time due to mutation and genetics Allen: stop me if i'm going too fast King: no i'm following so far Poe: steve you know this theory King: edgar please King: i'm listening and learning
Allen: so see Allen: people evolved from cavemen, right? King: i mean, i get the principle, yes Allen: and the picts came before us, right? Allen: so the picts were cavemen, right? Allen: that's science King: ya know, i can't argue with science
Allen: anyway, the scientist is all "boy i'm having a hard time with these ghost picts" Allen: "maybe the local doctor can give me a prescription for a nice sedative" Allen: and the doctor's all "solution is simple, you need to smoke this weed" Allen: "that will definitely stop those weird thoughts and visions"
Allen: anyway he takes the weed Allen: but surprisingly, that is NOT the end of the weird thoughts and visions Fitz James O'Brien: hey man O'Brien: did i hear someone was looking for the weed that stops you from having weird thoughts and visions? Allen: yes, do you have anything like that? O'Brien: man, i got EVERYTHING O'Brien: but no i don't have that
Allen: what do you do if you're having weird thoughts and visions? O'Brien: man, you should try smoking a little bud, man Allen: will that help? O'Brien: will that help what
Midnight Pals: Disruption
Stephen King: Submitted for the Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyyyy itsa me, elon! Musk: and ima not here to be your friend Stephano king Musk: ima here inna my official capacity asa da wallet inspector!
King: elon, i'm not just going to give you my wallet Musk: eyyyy whatsamattaforyou Stephano king? Musk: maybe you no understanda da situation Musk: you musta hand over da wallet Musk: cuz i have-a my own personal army ova goons Musk: justa like my-a personal hero da rich lowtax kyanka
Barker: hey that's great Barker: you should follow your leader Barker: WHOA Barker: who said that??? Barker: howard, was that you? Lovecraft: m-me? Barker: WOW i cannot believe that you would go and make a threat against the life of our benevolent fuhrer like that Lovecraft: i didn't-
Musk: me anna my boys, we eliminate da government waste King: how'd you do that? Musk: we throw out alla da drums of living dead gas George Romero: you threw out the drums of living dead gas!? Romero: don't you know what that gas does?! Musk: Musk: wassa DEI
Musk: anna we shut downa da lab where da scientists maka da murder monkey Musk: wassa too woke Dean Koontz: but elon! you can't just release the murder monkey! Musk: ooo issa disruptiano!
King: elon, how can you wreck so much havoc? Musk: with a little helpa from my-a goons Musk: i calla dem Musk: da disruptiano dudes
Musk: desa are my goons Musk: xxxHarry_Nutsackxxx Musk: Dickplay_Frnzy420 Musk: Skeptical_Owl_Enjoyer Musk: Le_Epic_Memer Musk: and Ebaumsworld_Einsatzgruppe
Musk: okay boys! Musk: are youa ready to be epic hardcore? Goon #1: ok boss Goon #2: on it boss Goon #3: right away boss Goon #4: you got it boss
Musk: [unplugging random machines] epic disruptiano! much win! Musk: [lights go out, klaxons blare] mama mia! Musk: [pointing at klaxons] this issa a crime
